You have no idea how hard it is to take a photo of a life-sized drawing of yourself with your smart phone, whilst also trying to get yourself into the photograph too. So I gave up, and took this instead: It looks reasonably like me: note the bags under the eyes, which are permanently tired due to a combination of the-cough-that-will-never-go-away and the-child-that-sucks-at-sleeping. And pinterest addiction. I'm wearing my LONDON, England … [Read more...]
Puppy Love
This week's Gallery prompt is phone photos. I like snapping things with my phone so this suited me. I have also just downloaded a new app to my phone so that I can edit it, which has given me some wonderful results. Here's the very first one I did: Editing has really added something both to the photos I have taken and the photos I want to take. I love that you can focus on a … [Read more...]
Kick-start Christmas with a Grumpy Clara Giveaway and Discount
This competition is now closed and the winner has been notified. But you can still get 10% off Cupcakes for Clara goodies with the code DOMESTICGOD10 for ALL of December. What a way to start December! Oh the weather outside is frightful....ly cold and I have been busy inside. But 1pm today I had made and iced one one cake for a School Coffee morning, marzipanned a second and iced a third. I had two meatloaves in the oven and was also drying … [Read more...]
The Gallery: Faces
The Dimpled Assassin is absurdly tuneful for her young age. She sings all the time (when she's not crying or eating, because that could be very messy). Her latest obsession is Baa Baa Black Sheep which DH made the mistake of showing her on youtube the other day. Now, whenever she spies his laptop, she screams Baa Baa Back Seep [sic] until one or other of us is foolish enough to put it on for … [Read more...]
Orange is the only colour
I think that giving a prompt like 'colour' and then casually saying after it 'just one' is mean. Because a colour immediately springs to mind. And another one, a third hot on it's heels. "That's OK," you say to yourself "I'll do them both." Except you read the small print which clearly states 'only one.' Bugger. So this evening, having gone through almost every chart on the Farrow and Ball colour chart, which features such intriguing … [Read more...]
Homeward bound
I wrote recently for another Gallery prompt that the best thing about travelling was the coming home: I love to see Canary Wharf in the distance and know that I will soon be on my front doorstep. It's a strange thing to grow up overseas. Not just overseas, but travelling, so that every three years you have a new home, a new school, a new social life, a new set of friends. My background meant that I was a good nanny: quick to settle in, get the … [Read more...]
The diary we all carry about
It was Oscar Wilde that wrote "Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us". I happen to have a very good memory for particular things: phone numbers, people's names, dates and so forth. It's less reliable whilst I am still having interrupted sleep, although I am reliably informed by a professional parent that this will change when I get some time to myself once The Girls go to school. In the meantime I carry a memory back-up, … [Read more...]
